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198 Gebel Bark al
appears regularly in the late Christian inscriptions of Lower Nubia where in the fullest formulas we
have —AN All ATS ON THN ^TXHN ATTOT EN KOAIIOIS ABPAAM KAI ISAAK KAI IAKQB KAI
IIANTQN TI2N API2N AMHN+.2 It is not necessary to suppose that the word is here employed
with any real knowledge beyond a vague general idea of its propriety in a mortuary inscription.
The initial letter of line 2 may perhaps be a K and not,, as transcribed, a P. The beginning of line 3 may
be II and not IT. Line 5, final A seems clear, though preceded by N and followed by M (in line 6).
End of line 10 — it is perhaps possible to read EN as EAI, in which case one would be tempted to
consider the lection EAISABET = EAEISABET. The form of the letters, the separation of the lines,
and the general aspect of the inscription strongly recall the Christian grave stelae of Lower Nubia.
I regret that the time at my disposal has not permitted me to go into the question of the language of
the inscription enough to determine whether the text is in Old Nubian or in some language of the Bega
group. Ed.]
2 Cf. The Christian inscriptions given by C. M. Firth, The Archaeological Survey of Nubia, Report for 1908-
1909, Cairo, 1912, Appendix 2, p. 45-50.
appears regularly in the late Christian inscriptions of Lower Nubia where in the fullest formulas we
have —AN All ATS ON THN ^TXHN ATTOT EN KOAIIOIS ABPAAM KAI ISAAK KAI IAKQB KAI
IIANTQN TI2N API2N AMHN+.2 It is not necessary to suppose that the word is here employed
with any real knowledge beyond a vague general idea of its propriety in a mortuary inscription.
The initial letter of line 2 may perhaps be a K and not,, as transcribed, a P. The beginning of line 3 may
be II and not IT. Line 5, final A seems clear, though preceded by N and followed by M (in line 6).
End of line 10 — it is perhaps possible to read EN as EAI, in which case one would be tempted to
consider the lection EAISABET = EAEISABET. The form of the letters, the separation of the lines,
and the general aspect of the inscription strongly recall the Christian grave stelae of Lower Nubia.
I regret that the time at my disposal has not permitted me to go into the question of the language of
the inscription enough to determine whether the text is in Old Nubian or in some language of the Bega
group. Ed.]
2 Cf. The Christian inscriptions given by C. M. Firth, The Archaeological Survey of Nubia, Report for 1908-
1909, Cairo, 1912, Appendix 2, p. 45-50.